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| quote: | Originally posted by bubble
you guys are right. i'm wrong.
now excuse me while i listen to some happy hardcore (never you mind that it's only 120 bpms) and drive to the record store in my sports car below (again, never you mind that it only reaches a top speed of 60 miles per hour and takes 30 seconds to go from 0-60. after all, it has a racing stripe and bucket seats.)
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Excellent point. So, by your logic, if I were to throw a paper airplane and it flew at the speed of a Boeing 747, it would be classifiable as such? What if it only flew as fast as your sports car? I suppose it would be a sports car, then, right? Ah, that makes sense, thanks. 
Cheap sarcasm aside, I'm afraid your logic isn't nearly as universal as you may wish it to be. While tempo does play a part in a song's aesthetic (and therefore playing a role in typological classification), it is only one part of the equation. Albeit Trance usually operates within the 120 - 160 BPM range, there are exceptions. Moreover, some of the earliest - and purest, in terms of concept - Trance was actually pretty damn slow. For example, give the 1988 Pure Trance Classic mix of The KLF's hit single What Time Is Love a listen. It's quite dubbed-out. Incidentally, the aforementioned song was arguably the track to start things off, as far as Trance is concerned.
| quote: | Originally posted by DC76
Prog Metal: System of a Down - BYOB
Pop-Metal: Sum 41 - The Bitter End |
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Eh, I dunno how you think SOAD's new track is Progressive Metal; they're a Mallcore (Agro-Alternative; not Metal) band through and through. Progressive Metal would be something more akin to Dream Theater's sound.
And after listening to a sample of that Sum 41 track, I'm sure that though it does sound mildly Metal-esque, there are better bands to mention than Avrilcore ones.
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